“Illinois Hardest Hit” Program Leverages Federal Dollars to Help Homeowners Avoid Foreclosure CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2011. Governor Pat Quinn yesterday announced a program to help approximately 15,000 Illinois homeowners threatened by foreclosure. The Illinois Hardest Hit program utilizes $345 million in federal funds to support working families having trouble making mortgage[Read More…]
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Chicago Man Receives 70 Year Prison Sentence For Murder Of High School Student On CTA Bus
CHICAGO–(ENWESPF)–September 16, 2011. A Chicago man was sentenced to 70 years in prison yesterday for the shooting death of a 17-year-old high school student on a CTA bus in an incident captured by bus video surveillance in 2008, according to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez. Milton[Read More…]
President Obama Signs America Invents Act and Announces New Steps to Help Entrepreneurs Create Jobs
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2011. At a ceremony at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, President Obama today signed the America Invents Act into law, representing historic patent reform legislation that will help American entrepreneurs and businesses bring their inventions to market sooner, creating new businesses and new[Read More…]
Statement by Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on National POW/MIA Recognition Day
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2011. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement regarding National POW/MIA Recognition Day: “Our freedom comes at a very high price. Throughout our nation’s history, the brave men and women of America’s military have made incredible sacrifices to defend our liberty, protect our security[Read More…]
Jobless Rates Up in 26 states, Down in 12 in Aug; Payroll Jobs Down in 30 States, Up in 20
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 16, 2011. Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed in August. Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia reported unemployment rate increases, 12 states recorded rate decreases, and 12 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Thirty-seven states registered unemployment[Read More…]
NIH Launches Program to Facilitate Drug, Vaccine and Therapeutic License Agreements for Start-up Companies
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2011. President Obama announced today an initiative that will facilitate the ability of start-up companies to license inventions for groundbreaking medical technologies for drugs, vaccines and therapeutics developed by intramural scientists at NIH. As part of this effort, the NIH is reducing both the cost and paperwork[Read More…]
NIH, DARPA and FDA Collaborate to Develop Cutting-edge Technologies to Predict Drug Safety
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2011. President Obama announced today that the National Institutes of Health will collaborate with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to develop a chip to screen for safe and effective drugs far more swiftly and efficiently than current methods,[Read More…]
Durbin Provision Would Help Protect Jobs at Quincy Mail Processing Facility; Ensure Community Involvement in Postal Service Study
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2011. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that, in his role as Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FSGG), he has inserted language in the committee’s annual appropriations bill that would help protect jobs at the Processing and Distribution Annex[Read More…]
Postal Service Faces New Reality
Proposes Comprehensive Changes to Nationwide Infrastructure WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2011. Faced with a massive nationwide infrastructure that is no longer financially sustainable, the U.S. Postal Service today proposed sweeping changes designed to save the organization up to $3 billion a year by cutting its network of processing facilities by over half[Read More…]
Durbin, Kirk, Manzullo Concerned About New Postal Consolidation Study; Plan to Ask for Meeting with Postmaster General
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2011. U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) and U.S. Congressman Don Manzullo (R-IL) today plan to ask for a meeting with the U.S. Postmaster General to discuss the Postal Service’s plan to conduct a study examining the possibility of moving operations performed at the[Read More…]
